Container List

The Independent Progressive Party records consist of the organization's administrative and subject files, and Henry
Wallace campaign material.

1.1 Administrative files 1946-1954

Scope and Content Note

The Administration subseries of the Independent Progressive Party series contains documents generated by the
national, state, Los Angeles County, and Los Angeles neighborhood levels of the party. These records include by-laws, founding
papers, correspondence, financial records, minutes, newsletters, party platforms and resolutions, and photographs. Through
the folder
titles, one can gain a sense of the organization of the party through its various clubs and committees. While the collection
contains
records from the multiple branches of the organization at the national and state level, it is particularly strong in its documentation
of IPP
activity in California and Los Angeles due to Jack Berman's leadership in the Los Angeles County arm of the IPP. The collection
contains significant runs of the national newsletter,
National Guardian, and the Los Angeles newsletter,
I.P.P. Organizer. The
collection also contains individual issues and small, incomplete runs of the newsletter by the youth arm, local clubs and
special
interest committees of the IPP. Additionally, the Administrative series contains records generated by the Progressive Citizens
of
America and the Hollywood Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences and Professions, two organizations that were
the
precursor to the IPP. The photographs depict figures such as Senator George Pepper, Senator Hugh Mitchell, actress Olivia
De
Havilland, Groucho Marx, Congressman Hugh de Lacy, Billy Graham, Ellis Patterson, Hugh Taylor, Paul Robeson, IPP chairman
Edward Mosk, Farmer-Labor Party Governor and Wallace campaign coordinator Elmer Benson. The photographs also document the
1948 Wallace rally at Gilmore Stadium and a mine workers' strike. Most of the photographs are unlabeled and undated but document
IPP and IPP-affiliated figures.

Features Horace V. Alexander, candidate for Secretary of State, Mrs. isobel Cerney, candidate for US Senate, Herbert Cohn,
candidate for State Treasurer.

Box 30, Folder 1

Film--untitled undated

1.2 Subject files 1938, 1945-1954

Scope and Content Note

The Subject Files contains materials on IPP and IPP endorsed candidates, political opponents, IPP involvement in
municipal, state (mostly in Los Angeles and California) and national elections, and political issues (i.e. atomic bomb, The
Cold War,
McCarthyism, racial discrimination, immigration, cost of living, and labor unions). The subject files contain a large amount
of campaign
literature by Democratic and Progressive Party candidates. Candidates with a substantial amount of documentation are filed
according to their last name; candidates with lesser documentation are arranged alphabetically within the folder "Candidates."
This
sub-series also contains extensive newspaper clippings organized by year.

California State Senator. Head of State Senate Committee on un-American Activities

Box 14, Folder 6

Trade--China 1949

Box 14, Folder 7

United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) 1948

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Pamphlets

Box 14, Folder 8

United Nations 1948

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Address by Sir Carl Berendsen

Box 14, Folder 9

Vogel, Mortimer 1946

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California Assembly candidate

Box 14, Folder 10

Voorhis, Jerry 1946

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U.S. Senator. Voting record

Box 14, Folder 11

Vote cast in presidential and congressional elections 1928-1944

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Government Printing Office publication

Box 14, Folder 12

Walsh, George undated

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Speech

Box 14, Folder 13

Warren, Earl 1946, undated

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California governor. Research report regarding political record.

Box 14, Folder 14

Warren, Earl 1943-1946

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Clippings

Box 14, Folder 15

Washington, Alia undated

Scope and Content Note

Speeches

Box 31, Folder 1

Elections--Los Angeles 1951

Scope and Content Note

Tabulation of returns

1.3 Wallace, Henry 1942, 1946-1950, 1986

Scope and Content Note

The Henry A. Wallace sub-series contains campaign literature, drafts and transcripts of speeches, clippings,
videotapes, and reel-to-reel audio recordings. The majority of the material relates to Wallace's 1948 Presidential campaign.
The work
of the National Wallace for President Committee is heavily documented; there is also a significant amount of campaign literature
from
the smaller, diverse campaign committees such as Italian-Americans for Wallace, Women for Wallace, Nisei for Wallace, Youth
for
Wallace, and Labor for Wallace. The rest of the materials consist of speeches from 1949-1950 as well as newspaper clippings
on
Wallace's resignation from the IPP in 1950.

Box 15, Folder 1

Amigos de Wallace 1948, undated

Scope and Content Note

Some materials in Spanish

Box 15, Folder 2

Biography 1948

Box 15, Folder 3

Campaign literature 1948

Box 15, Folder 4

Clippings 1947

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Articles in El Popular and Revista de D.F in Spanish

Box 15, Folder 5

Clippings 1948

Box 15, Folder 6

Clippings 1949

Box 15, Folder 7

Clippings 1950

Box 15, Folder 8

Essays--about 1948

Box 15, Folder 9

Essays--by 1946

Box 15, Folder 10

Films 1948

Scope and Content Note

Written descriptions

Box 15, Folder 11

National Labor Committee for Wallace 1948

Box 15, Folder 12

National Railroad Labor Committee 1948, undated

Box 15, Folder 13

National Wallace for President Committee 1948-1949, undated

Scope and Content Note

Pamphlets, correspondence, newsletters, committee members

Box 15, Folder 14

National Wallace for President Committee Convention 1948

Box 16, Folder 1

Nationality Committee 1948-1949

Box 16, Folder 2

Nisei for Wallace 1948-1949

Box 16, Folder 3

Rally--Olympic Auditorium 1946 October 24

Box 16, Folder 4

Rally--Gilmore Stadium 1947

Box 16, Folder 5

Rally--Gilmore Stadium 1948 October 2

Box 16, Folder 6

Rally--Gilmore Stadium 1949 May 13

Box 16, Folder 7

Resignation 1950

Scope and Content Note

Clippings

Box 16, Folder 8

Songs 1948

Box 16, Folder 9

Speeches 1942

Box 16, Folder 10

Speeches 1947 March-May

Box 16, Folder 11

Speeches 1947 September-December

Box 16, Folder 12

Speeches 1948 January

Box 16, Folder 13

Speeches 1948 February

Box 16, Folder 14

Speeches 1948 March

Box 17, Folder 1

Speeches 1948 April

Box 17, Folder 2

Speeches 1948 May

Box 17, Folder 3

Speeches 1948 June

Box 17, Folder 4

Speeches 1948 July

Box 17, Folder 5

Speeches 1948 August

Box 17, Folder 6

Speeches 1948 September

Box 17, Folder 7

Speeches 1948 October

Box 17, Folder 8

Speeches 1949

Box 17, Folder 9

Speeches 1950

Box 17, Folder 10

Speeches undated

Box 17, Folder 11

Women for Wallace 1948, undated

Box 17, Folder 12

Youth groups for Wallace 1948

Scope and Content Note

Young Progressives of America, Youth for Wallace, Students for Wallace

Box 27, Folder 1

Rally undated

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Photograph in two parts

Box 27, Folder 2

Speeches--Berkeley undated

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On reverse, "congratulated after delivering speech at Berkeley"

Box 27, Folder 3

Scrapbook 1945-1948, 1986

Scope and Content Note

Clippings, party platform, Hugh De Lacey memorial program

Box 28, Folder 1

Speeches 1948 May 15

Scope and Content Note

Audiotape, reel 1. Magnetic recording tape

Box 28, Folder 2

Speeches 1948 May 15

Scope and Content Note

Audiotape, reel 2. Magnetic recording tape

Box 28, Folder 3

Film--"Meet Henry Wallace" undated

Scope and Content Note

Reel 1, 16 mm

Box 28, Folder 4

Film--"Meet Henry Wallace" undated

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Reel 2, 16 mm

Box 30, Folder 2

Film--Freedom rally undated

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Wallace and Paul Robeson, Harlem, New York

2. Californians for Liberal Representation 1951-1976

Scope and Content Note

The Californians for Liberal Representation records consist of the organization's administrative and subject files.

1.1 Administrative 1963-1974, undated

Scope and Content Note

The Administration sub-series contains materials such as agendas and minutes from the Executive Board's
meetings, by-laws, fundraising and campaign letters, correspondence, and press releases. The correspondence includes many
letters
to and from political and community leaders, including Cesar Chavez. The Subject Files sub-series contains materials on CLR-
endorsed candidates, political opponents, municipal, state, and national elections, legislature (assembly and congressional
district
reapportionment, tax reform, farm workers), and materials from other liberal political organizations, such as California Democratic
Council and Congress for Mexican Unity.

Box 18, Folder 1

Board minutes 1963

Box 18, Folder 2

Board minutes and committee reports 1964

Box 18, Folder 3

Board minutes 1965

Box 18, Folder 4

Board minutes and committee reports 1966

Box 18, Folder 5

Board minutes and committee reports 1967

Box 18, Folder 6

Board minutes and committee reports 1968

Box 18, Folder 7

Board minutes and committee reports 1969

Box 18, Folder 8

Board minutes and committee reports 1970

Box 18, Folder 9

Board minutes and committee reports 1971

Box 18, Folder 10

Board minutes and committee reports 1972

Box 18, Folder 11

Board minutes and committee reports 1973

Box 18, Folder 12

Board minutes and committee reports 1974

Box 18, Folder 13

Board correspondence 1975

Box 18, Folder 14

Board minutes and committee materials undated

Box 18, Folder 15

By-laws undated

Box 18, Folder 16

Circular letters 1967

Box 18, Folder 17

Circular letters 1968

Box 18, Folder 18

Circular letters 1969

Box 18, Folder 19

Circular letters 1970

Box 19, Folder 1

Circular letters 1971

Box 19, Folder 2

Circular letters 1972

Box 19, Folder 3

Circular letters 1973

Box 19, Folder 4

Circular letters 1974

Box 19, Folder 5

Circular letters undated

Box 19, Folder 6

Circular letters from other organizations 1963-1976

Box 19, Folder 7

Clippings 1971-1973, undated

Box 19, Folder 8

Contact lists 1968

Box 19, Folder 9

Correspondence 1967

Box 19, Folder 10

Correspondence 1968

Box 19, Folder 11

Correspondence 1969

Box 19, Folder 12

Correspondence 1970

Box 19, Folder 13

Correspondence 1971

Box 19, Folder 14

Correspondence 1972

Box 19, Folder 15

Correspondence 1973

Box 19, Folder 16

Correspondence 1974

Box 19, Folder 17

Correspondence undated

Box 19, Folder 18

Demographics--districts and precincts 1969-1971

Box 19, Folder 19

Endorsements--ballot measures 1972

Box 19, Folder 20

Financial records 1965

Box 19, Folder 21

Financial records 1968

Box 19, Folder 22

Flyers--other organizations 1964, undated

Box 19, Folder 23

Fundraising 1968

Box 19, Folder 24

Fundraising 1969

Box 19, Folder 25

Fundraising 1970

Box 19, Folder 26

Fundraising 1971

Box 19, Folder 27

Fundraising 1972

Box 19, Folder 28

Fundraising 1973

Box 19, Folder 29

Fundraising undated

Box 19, Folder 30

Guidelines--campaigns 1976, undated

Box 20, Folder 1

Organizational questionnaire 1972

Box 20, Folder 2

Press releases 1968-1972

Box 20, Folder 3

Signatures undated

Box 20, Folder 4

Tribute Journal 1972

Scope and Content Note

Tenth anniversary commemoration

Box 20, Folder 5

Writings 1971

Scope and Content Note

Party statements, speeches

1.2 Subject 1951-1976 (inclusive), 1966-1976 (bulk)

Scope and Content Note

The subject files contain a significant amount of Tom Bradley's 1969 mayoral campaign as CLR was a primary
endorser. Other notable figures included in the subject files are CLR Chairman Arthur Carstens, and former and first African-American
Mayor of Gary, Indiana Richard Hatcher, Ralph Nader, and CLR's Kefauver Award winners – journalist William Shirer, Senators
George
McGovern, Wayne Morse, and Joseph Clark.

The Liberal Political Activity in California, (1982-1986) series consists of materials related to Jack Berman's
involvement in politics after the IPP and CLR. Berman served on the Tom Bradley's gubernatorial campaign; some of these materials
are included in this series. Other materials include correspondence from the Organizing Committee of New Coalition and minutes
from
Grass Roots Project meetings, articles, and a Dorothy Ray Healey tribute book.

No sub-series

Box 17, Folder 13

People--Bradley, Tom--house party 1986

Scope and Content Note

VHS videocassette

Box 25, Folder 14

Articles circa 1982-1984

Box 25, Folder 15

Organizations 1983-1986

Scope and Content Note

Organizing Committee of New Coalition, New Democratic Coalition, minutes of Grass Root Project,